HLA Evolved is Coming!
Posted By Jim Kogler Product Manager, Link Products on May 6, 2010
Good news! HLA Evolved has just cleared a major milestone with the IEEE SAB and REVCOM approving the changes to the HLA Standard. IEEE will now will complete an editorial review and then publish the new IEEE 1516-2010 family of standards. This pretty much means the standards are finalized and will appear on the IEEE website soon.
HLA Evolved is the working term for the latest version of IEEE-1516 and offers some pretty cool features. For background on the standard there are a number of papers and FAQs about what is new in HLA Evolved. Links to these papers can be found at the MÄK web site here (http://www.mak.com/community/whitepapers.php). I’d like to share MÄK’s plans to support HLA Evolved.
As many of you know, MÄK has been heavily involved with the development of the HLA Evolved Standard. We view HLA Evolved as an important milestone and have committed to releasing our RTI with full HLA Evolved support once the standard was finalized. We are pleased to announce that the MÄK RTI version 4.0 will be released this July with full support for the HLA Evolved C++ API.
Of course, what good is HLA Evolved without a suite of tools to help you use it? To compliment the RTI, we will simultaneously release VR-Link 4.0 with HLA Evolved support. This will allow customers who have relied on VR-Link to provide them with the latest updates to interoperability standards (like DIS, HLA, and the RPR FOM) to upgrade federates with minimal code changes to the new HLA Evolved Standard.
Additionally, we are committing to upgrading the other MÄK Link products throughout the rest of 2010. That means upgrades for VR-Exchange and the MÄK Data Logger will occur later this year.
We do not currently have a schedule for VR-Forces or VR-Vantage upgrades. If you are interested in support for HLA Evolved for these products please let your sales representative know (sales@mak.com).
Finally, I would like to thank everyone at MÄK who has worked so hard to make this possible: Len Granowetter, Doug Wood, and Ben Watrous who spent many hours working on the HLA Evolved Standard as well as the original SISO DLC API which started us on this road. Thanks also go to Rob Farraher, Aaron Dubois, Nils Reker, Doug Armstrong, and Anthony Merrill who have worked hard on implementation, testing, and API verification.